rent
Definition
- n. a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- n. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
- v. let for money
- v. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
Word forms
- Present participle
- renting
- Past participle
- rented
- Past tense
- rented
- Third person singular
- rents
Example sentences
n.
The rent for this apartment is quite high, but it includes utilities.
vt.
I plan to rent a car for my trip next week.
vi.
They decided to rent out their extra room to a student.
a.
The rent agreement had a few clauses that seemed contradictory.
v.
He rended the paper in frustration after reading the bad news.